 | Salome of the Tenements (Radical Novel Reconsidered)
Publication Date: January 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0252064356 | ISBN-13: 978-0252064357 Salome is a gritty portrait of life on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1900s. Wealthy philanthropists devoted to the settlement house movement make plans to eradicate poverty and to erase the more unsettling signs of foreigness found among the immigrant poor. Sonya Vrunsky is poor, smart, and beautiful. She hates being patronized and she craves the pleasure that money does buy. When the Yiddish newspaper she works for sends her off to interview a philanthropist, she decides she will marry h...
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 | Redbone
Release Date: March 27, 2012Growing up, Farah Cotton was the only member of her "family of savages" with light skin. Her childhood has permanently scarred her and so has porphyria, an illness that forces her to stay indoors. Now, as an adult, she's living large at Platinum Lofts, D.C.'s ultimate luxury address. But when her lover, Zone, tries to throw her out, he ends up dead. His income was paying the rent, so now Farah needs a roommate."Cute redbone female looking to share luxury apartment with another redbone female." When Lesa Carmine sees the classified ad, it seems too good to be true....
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 | American Science Fiction and the Cold War
Publication Date: 1999American science fiction has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through a series of important texts, David Seed investigates the political inflections put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances. Nuclear holocaust, Russian invasion, and the perceived rise of totalitarianism in American society are key elements in the author's exploration of science fiction narratives which includeFahrenheit 451, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, andDr. Strangelove. The author's approach draws on the s...
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 | Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Release Date: February 10, 2003For twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd has juggled marriage, motherhood, and career with remarkable success. It has been a life of family picnics, books and wine, a cherished house, and her own exquisitely designed garden—sunny and comfortable. But then the carefully managed life to which Rose has become accustomed comes crashing down around her when—over the course of a few days—her marriage and her career both fall apart. Can Rose, whose anguish is barely softened by the ministrations of friends and grown children with their own problems, ever st...
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 | The Soul of The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe
Publication Date: August 19, 2005When C. S. Lewis published The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe he created one of Christendom's most cherished allegories. Viewers of the movie, as well as readers of the book will come away deeply moved by what they have encountered in Narnia. They will have countless questions such as: How did the Witch take over Narnia? Why couldn't Edmund resist temptation? Why did the Lion have to die? And they will find the answers in this wonderful book written for Christians and non-Christians alike. ...
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 | Miracle Cure
Release Date: January 5, 1999The master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well....After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he's been chosen to join the medical team testing a new miracle drug. The initial results are so promising that Brian pushes to get his father--who suffers from a dangerous heart condition--accepted into the study.But Brian is beginning to suspect his superiors are hiding som...
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 | From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
Publication Date: September 1995From classical enchantresses to Mother Goose to the Brothers Grimm, a cultural study of fairy tales shows what they reveal about the changing status of women, the ways of men, racial prejudice, and other serious subjects. ...
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 | Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy
Publication Date: September 13, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521575753 | ISBN-13: 978-0521575751This book examines the plays of the Greek comic writer Aristophanes and attempts to reconstruct the responses of the original audiences by using anthropological techniques to compare the plays with those Greek myths and rituals that share similar story patterns or subject matter.It is the first book to apply this type of analysis systematically to all the comedies, and also differs from earlier studies in that it does not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays.All Greek is translated. ...
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 | Three Tragedies (Penguin plays & screenplays)
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 | God's Thoughts are not our Thoughts (His thoughts are much higher)
Release Date: July 6, 2006This book of poems is food for your soul. It's a spiritual lift when encountering different situations, such as lost love, depression, loneliness, sorrow and death it gives you strength in knowing God. ...
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 | Against Linearity
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 | Vladimir Vysotsky: Songs & Poems
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 | Sculpting the Middle Class: History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha
Publication Date: April 15, 2010This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the last 4 decades of the 20th century. ...
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 | Leonardo Da Vinci (Scientists Who Made History)
Publication Date: January 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-at-Large
Publication Date: May 1, 1983This is the first critical study to come to grips with the work of Ferlinghetti, a man who eludes classification because he practices most forms of art, because he is both educated (doctorate from the Sorbonne) and streetwise, and because for more than 25 years he has followed the “expansive and dangerous tradition of the poet who boldly seeks Rimbaud’s goal ‘to change life’ through his art.” Explaining his method, Smith notes that “By approaching Lawrence Ferlinghetti as the contemporary poet-prophet of engage...
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 | The book of Sherlock Holmes; (Rainbow classics)
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 | Pure: The Second Covenant Novel
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 | Super-Villain Team-Up: Modok's 11 (v. 11)
Publication Date: February 20, 2008| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Michael Hague's Favourite Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 4 and up Perfect for gift-giving--a classic illustrated by Michael Hague, in a beautifully redesigned edition.Hans Christian Andersen was one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Michael Hague has chosen nine of Andersen's best-loved fairy tales to illustrate in his unique style....
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 | The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Publication Date: December 1, 2001| Age Level: 3 and up FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Retells the traditional tale about three billy goats who trick a troll that lives under the bridge. ...
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